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As the humanitarian crisis inside Iraq intensifies, the need for strong coordination on the ground couldn’t be higher. Since January 2014, a surge in violence between Government forces and armed groups has seen 1.2 million people flee their homes in central and northern Iraq.
Mike McDonagh, the...

An estimated 1.2 million people have fled their homes this year, as a result of violence that has gripped large swathes of northern Iraq.
Humanitarian aid groups have been responding since the outset. However, a $500 million grant from Saudi Arabia will allow the UN and its humanitarian partners...

The sun filters through the dust lifted by a child playing in the sandy courtyard. Rouké Amadou worries that she and her family might soon be forced from this compound, their home for the past few months.
Quietly and assuredly she gestures with her hand several times to make her point: “...

A surge in violence between Government forces and armed groups has displaced an estimated 1.2 million Iraqis since January 2014. Violence has been most intense in Anbar Governorate in north-western Iraq, where approximately 550,000 people have been displaced by fighting centred on Fallujah and Ramadi...

Experienced rescuers from a number of former Soviet Union countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan – came together in Almaty in June to take part in a four-day training on the On-Site Operations Coordination Centre (OSOCC).
Following a natural...